Installing Apache 1.3.12 on Win98

ireynolds

Can anybody help me, please? I recently bought Julie C Meloni's "PHP Fast and Easy" book the other day. I tried to follow her installation of the web server software. I try to turn on Apache by clicking it on to run in DOS but it don't want to run. DOS window would come up for a second then close again. When I type "http://localhost" in the browser, but the browser can't find the server on my pc. I got Win 98SE. Can anybody help with this issue.

jpmoriarty

can it not find the server or is there nothing to find? If there's no default web page in the document root directory, then it wont be able to display anything.

Find out where the document root is, and then put a file called phpinfo.php in there:

<?php
  phpinfo();
?>

Then type in http://localhost/phpinfo.php into explorer and see if anything comes up.